{"id":52719,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/elements-of-a-marketing-plan"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:49:59","slug":"elements-of-a-marketing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/elements-of-a-marketing-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Elements of a marketing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can this be done if you havent seen the video or read the chapters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch<\/b>&nbsp;the video case study &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/highered.mheducation.com\/sites\/0077861035\/student_view0\/chapter3\/video_cases.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Geek Squad: A New Business for a New Environment<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Read<\/b>&nbsp;the case study discussion on pp. 88-89 of the&nbsp;Marketing&nbsp;text. Keep this case study in mind as you complete this assignment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Write<\/b>&nbsp;a 1,050-word report using your company or one with which you are familiar (if you prefer, your facilitator can assign one to you). Answer the following questions for your chosen organization.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explain what the specific key environmental forces are that created an opportunity for your company.<\/li>\n<li>Identify if there have been changes in the purchasing patterns of your organization&#8217;s target market in recent years.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct an environmental scan for your chosen company to identify key trends.&nbsp; For each of the five environmental forces (social, economic, technological, competitive, and regulatory), identify trends likely to influence your company&#8217;s marketing efforts and product offering in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Explain what differentiation strategy your company should undertake to encourage their target market to choose them over other competitors.<\/li>\n<li>Analyze what lessons you might learn from the Geek Squad case study.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Include&nbsp;<\/b>at least three references, at least one of which must come from the University Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can this be done if you havent seen the video or read the chapters.&nbsp; Watch&nbsp;the video case study &#8220;Geek Squad: A New Business for a New Environment.&#8221; Read&nbsp;the case study discussion on pp. 88-89 of the&nbsp;Marketing&nbsp;text. Keep this case study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/elements-of-a-marketing-plan\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}